Past Exhibitions
What Do You See? Portraits from the Arkell Museum Collection

March 5, 2022 through August 21, 2022

This exhibition features visitor favorites, rarely exhibited pieces, and stellar examples from the permanent collection. The installation inspires creative thinking, and asks viewers to consider the faces, postures, attire, and location of the varied portraits to experience close looking and even self-reflection. Artists featured include Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent, Gilbert Stuart, Robert Henri, George Bellows, Frank Duveneck, and many more.

Abbott Thayer (1849-1921)
Girl Arranging Her Hair, ca. 1918-1920
Oil on canvas
Gift of Bartlett Arkell, 1930

oil painting of a woman with her hands up doing her hair.
New York State Grange Photographs by Andrew Baugnet

March 5, 2022 through August 21, 2022

This exhibition examines the history, cultural importance, and legacy of New York State granges. Baugnet's images of grange exteriors and interiors feature strong lines and evocative displays of light and shadow. The large-scale back and white photographs offer a stunning homage to the beauty and simplicity of these buildings.

Baugnet became fascinated by New York State grange buildings decades ago after following signs advertising a chicken dinner. Since then, he has spent much of his career photographing grange buildings across the state. Baugnet specializes in documenting historic architecture and the built environment. His grange photographs are visually compelling and serve as important records of rural communities.

Andrew Baugnet (b. 1964)
Butternut Valley Grange No. 1533
Gilbertsville, Otsego County, NY
Archival pigment print from 4”x5” negative
Photographed 2012; printed 2019

interior of a room. Walls are paneled with wood, a door has a round peep hole in it. There is a chair to the left of the door
True to Form: Lalique Glass, Small Sculpture, and Garden Statuary from the Arkell Museum Collection

March 5, 2022 through May 16, 2022

From around 1890 to 1930, fountain and garden statuary flourished in the United States, providing important new design and marketing opportunities for American sculptors. The joyful and sometimes frivolous figures created by American garden sculptors of the era were intended to enhance the garden experience by accenting, not dominating, specific garden spaces. This exhibit includes both indoor and outdoor figures collected by Bartlett Arkell and gifted by him to the Museum, and explores our own Memorial Garden through vintage images.

Edward Francis McCartan (1879-1947)
Diana and the Dog, 1923
Sand cast copper alloy (bronze)
Gift of Bartlett Arkell, 1925

Statue of woman holding a bow in her left hand and restraining a leaping dog with the right hand.

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